Car you vowed to buy as a lad

[Rwc13]

same for me....So wanted one and never got one. Did manage to get a later 1990 Esprit Turbo For my 30th birthday View attachment 77271but the early car started my love with a Lotus and cars.

Gorgeous in that colour

 

[EnzoMC]

a friends brother got a car, was a nice car and knew it was special but the Lotus Cortina just seemed like most other cars and dated.

anyho, I was into music and cycling not cars. one day cycling up Maldon hill (about 14% up hill) I heard a sound I hadn't heard before, as it slowly came around the corner, this low red car like nothing I've seen before. I also remember stopping in the road and watching the car. I didn't at the time even know what it was. Jumped back on my bike and cycled as fast as I could, but lost it once the traffic got out the way. I remember seeing a horse on the back. so that was the day that I become a petrol head and wanted a nice car... cycled back to my home town and to the library... car section...car section... and that was it... maybe just maybe one day...

I think the car I saw was a 328GTS but this was the car that I wanted.
At the time I had no idea what it would cost... I found ferrari was in colchester so used to cycle to the showroom look at he cars from the grass outside and cycle back.
One day I went in and got the impression I shouldn't be in there but a nice guy gave me a broucher and showed me around the cars outside...

 

[conaero]

Great story Enzo. Keep em coming.

 

[zagatoes30]

a friends brother got a car, was a nice car and knew it was special but the Lotus Cortina just seemed like most other cars and dated.

anyho, I was into music and cycling not cars. one day cycling up Maldon hill (about 14% up hill) I heard a sound I hadn't heard before, as it slowly came around the corner, this low red car like nothing I've seen before. I also remember stopping in the road and watching the car. I didn't at the time even know what it was. Jumped back on my bike and cycled as fast as I could, but lost it once the traffic got out the way. I remember seeing a horse on the back. so that was the day that I become a petrol head and wanted a nice car... cycled back to my home town and to the library... car section...car section... and that was it... maybe just maybe one day...

I think the car I saw was a 328GTS but this was the car that I wanted.
At the time I had no idea what it would cost... I found ferrari was in colchester so used to cycle to the showroom look at he cars from the grass outside and cycle back.
One day I went in and got the impression I shouldn't be in there but a nice guy gave me a broucher and showed me around the cars outside...

Mid engined Ferraris don't get any better than the 288GTO

 

[Wack61]

In 1996 he swapped it for a nearly new Impreza the performance was on a whole different level. It actually scared me enough that I wouldn’t drive it.

I had the same experience when a neighbough bought a new impreza in 2002 a STi type UK


The acceleration was like nothing I'd ever felt before , we came down a road with some bends in it doing about 110 so he could demonstrate the road holding , all I could think is if a car backs off the drive of one of those houses we're going end over end in that field

When I got out I was shaking , didn't go in it again.

In the 70s a girlfriends dad had a Mk1 Capri 3.0 RS

I never did own a capri but the mustang was the modern equivalent

 

[philw696]

Loved my Capris back in the 80s and early 90's 3.0S and 2.8i.
Also had a Impreza WRX and then a STI mid 00's so much fun and easy to drive a lot easier than the Celica GT4 I built to Rally.

 

[Wack61]

I had a WRX hatchback for 3 years 13-16, I loved that car , with hindsight i should have kept it because I've spent a lot of money on cars in the last 4 years but none of them were as much fun to drive as that WRX , fast enough but just went wherever you pointed it regardless of the road surface

 

[D Walker]

I was born in a Alfa Giulia Super so I really wanted a Cavalier GSI like the touring cars.

It’s in your blood....

 

[dickygrace]

Wasn't particularly into cars as a lad, but my only recollection of a car I said I would have one day is the Mitsubishi 3000GT View attachment 77285

My detailer has one of these, always used to mistake them for a Ferrari back in the day.

 

[lifes2short]

as a lad loved the RS2000, tried to persuade my dad to buy a new one back in the late 70's but he ended up buying a new fiat 131 supermirafiori which was also a lovely car in cherry red, i never did get an rs2000 but ended up with one less zero

 

[dickygrace]

I remember as a child seeing a De Tomaso Pantera GT5-S at a supercar showroom in Johannesburg (where we lived at the time) in the late 80s: it had such presence, and the rear wheels and exhausts were the most imposing I’d ever seen. I loved the plush interior too.

Made a real impression on me, and I dreamt of owning one when I grew up. I’m still waiting!

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I love these too Alex but Russ says he’ll shoot me if I ever ask him to work on one

 

[dickygrace]

Before I was a Maserati man, I used to love Porsches (still do love some of them) and I would still love a 993 Turbo S, preferably one in green....

 

[midlifecrisis]

Avenger Tiger or rather the Mexico eater!

Want cars for me it was biles. Ducati 900 SS Desmo

Likewise it wasn’t cars but motorbikes and I was still a lad in my 20's so the latest model of the Kawasaki ZXR750 would be my choice.

And guess what is in my garage...

 

[Oneball]

Before I was a Maserati man, I used to love Porsches (still do love some of them) and I would still love a 993 Turbo S, preferably one in green....View attachment 77331

The Porsche uk Turbo press car was for sale about 20 years ago, think in the twenty thousands. Decided it was too rough for the money and who really wants something that was thrashed by journos. Wonder how much it’d be now?!

 

[dickygrace]

The Porsche uk Turbo press car was for sale about 20 years ago, think in the twenty thousands. Decided it was too rough for the money and who really wants something that was thrashed by journos. Wonder how much it’d be now?!

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About £100k more than it was back then.

 

[GeoffCapes]

As a kid my best mates dad had an Alfa GTV6 (in black) and his mum a Sud.

The GTV6 was the first Alfa I ever went in. From then I always wanted an Alfa. Didn't matter which one, just an Alfa. I've had 5 of them now.

When I first started working in London (I was 16), whilst walking down City road I heard (before I saw it) the most marvellous noise screaming down the road.
It literally screeched to a halt next to me at a set of traffic lights. It was black, and was gorgeous. It was a Maserati Shamal.
I went straight into the newsagents next to the lights and bought Performance Car, where it had a feature on the Shamal. At that point I wanted a Maserati.
I've now had 2.

The same year, our next door neighbour worked at a printing firm and they were printing Ferrari UK's calendar. In that calender they had the Ferrari 288 GTO and the F40 (along with the 348 and the Mondial and the 308 and the 328).
At that point I wanted a Ferrari.
I'm still waiting to own one.........

 

[Hawk13]

Motorbikes were always what I spent my money on as a yoof as I could never really afford the cars I wanted .... and I still have that passion now and have now owned almost every one of my childhood dreams (except for a Britten and the Norton rotary).

For cars, the first time I really remember thinking "I want that one" was seeing one of these:

 

[lifes2short]

Motorbikes were always what I spent my money on as a yoof as I could never really afford the cars I wanted .... and I still have that passion now and have now owned almost every one of my childhood dreams (except for a Britten and the Norton rotary).

For cars, the first time I really remember thinking "I want that one" was seeing one of these:

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nice, but i much preferred the 240 in the background

 

[Hawk13]

nice, but i much preferred the 240 in the background

Good call - I actually prefer the look of them as well but for reasons unknown the 280 is the one that triggers fond memories

 

[midlifecrisis]

Motorbikes were always what I spent my money on as a yoof as I could never really afford the cars I wanted .... and I still have that passion now and have now owned almost every one of my childhood dreams (except for a Britten and the Norton rotary).

For cars, the first time I really remember thinking "I want that one" was seeing one of these:

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Now the Britten, what a story that was. Gorgeous bikes proving that form follows function yet is still pretty.